The Role of the Night & the Northern Lights in the Production of a New Touristic Imaginary of the North
International audience Our work is based on empirical observation: the development of a tourist offer proposing to observe the northern lights in some Nordic areas. We place these developments in a broader dynamic of changes in our relationship to the night. These changes find a translation in a tou...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.uns6li 2023-05-15T16:51:58+02:00 The Role of the Night & the Northern Lights in the Production of a New Touristic Imaginary of the North Challéat, Samuel Dupuy, Pierre-Olivier Bénos, Rémi Lapostolle, Dany Girard, Frédérique Poméon, Thomas Milian, Johan Dynamiques Rurales Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse ENSAT -École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville (ENSFEA)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP) Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS) Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM) Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA) Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB) Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Programme MSHS-Toulouse CEPYMAC Collectif RENOIR Reykjavik, Iceland 2015-02-26 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01087637 en eng HAL CCSD hal-01087637 10670/1.uns6li https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01087637 undefined Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société The Dynamics of Darkness in the North The Dynamics of Darkness in the North, Feb 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland Night Darkness Northern Lights Tourism Imaginary Landscapes North socio hisphilso Conference Output https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_c94f/ 2015 fttriple 2023-01-22T16:55:13Z International audience Our work is based on empirical observation: the development of a tourist offer proposing to observe the northern lights in some Nordic areas. We place these developments in a broader dynamic of changes in our relationship to the night. These changes find a translation in a tourism that takes the night and its environmental resources as objects. This communication focuses on a particular object of these tourist dynamics: the northern lights. We formulate the following hypothesis: the erosion by the urban lighting of the “natural” night and of the accessibility to its “environmental resources” (as the starry sky, for example) provides an opportunity for some areas of low density to convey an image of strong naturality. In the case before us, large areas of the North put forward three advantages: to striking daytime landscape naturalness, they add a good quality of the dark night and a very special nocturnal environmental resource that can be frequently observed in their latitudes, the northern lights. This set seems to be new forms of “lost identity”, new “spaces of nostalgia” for many people living in large metropolitan cities. By questioning the status of the northern lights as landscape object, we analyze the manufacture of a new touristic imaginary linked to the Nordic countries. The northern lights appear to be objects worthy of consideration as markers of a strong degree of naturalness, in which the themes of the return and the conquest are still relevant and play a key role in the production of images, landscapes or speech. Through qualitative and quantitative approaches, our empirical material is twofold: iconographic production of landscapes in geographical magazines, and tourism offers promoting the Nordic areas. Other/Unknown Material Iceland Unknown |
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International audience Our work is based on empirical observation: the development of a tourist offer proposing to observe the northern lights in some Nordic areas. We place these developments in a broader dynamic of changes in our relationship to the night. These changes find a translation in a tourism that takes the night and its environmental resources as objects. This communication focuses on a particular object of these tourist dynamics: the northern lights. We formulate the following hypothesis: the erosion by the urban lighting of the “natural” night and of the accessibility to its “environmental resources” (as the starry sky, for example) provides an opportunity for some areas of low density to convey an image of strong naturality. In the case before us, large areas of the North put forward three advantages: to striking daytime landscape naturalness, they add a good quality of the dark night and a very special nocturnal environmental resource that can be frequently observed in their latitudes, the northern lights. This set seems to be new forms of “lost identity”, new “spaces of nostalgia” for many people living in large metropolitan cities. By questioning the status of the northern lights as landscape object, we analyze the manufacture of a new touristic imaginary linked to the Nordic countries. The northern lights appear to be objects worthy of consideration as markers of a strong degree of naturalness, in which the themes of the return and the conquest are still relevant and play a key role in the production of images, landscapes or speech. Through qualitative and quantitative approaches, our empirical material is twofold: iconographic production of landscapes in geographical magazines, and tourism offers promoting the Nordic areas. |
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Dynamiques Rurales Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse ENSAT -École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville (ENSFEA)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP) Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS) Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM) Théoriser et modéliser pour aménager (UMR 6049) (ThéMA) Université de Franche-Comté (UFC) Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB) Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Programme MSHS-Toulouse CEPYMAC Collectif RENOIR |
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The Role of the Night & the Northern Lights in the Production of a New Touristic Imaginary of the North |
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The Role of the Night & the Northern Lights in the Production of a New Touristic Imaginary of the North |
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